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time remaining on summoned Bralani = 1
time remaining on haste = 1
time remaining on circle against evil = 99
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With the mage fallen, the Bralani switches back to attacking the woman
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Lavode again uses the power of his ancestors to try and knock down the woman.
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Alden, you can act on your own. The woman and the mage are down, the only one up is the tengu..... Who surrenders to you after he sees his companions are knocked down, before anyone could do any real damage to him.
S3. Dining Room
The table around which Pathfinders once enjoyed one another’s company and the safe house’s wine and food now is a crumbling heap of splintering boards, no longer a symbol of friendship and warmth, but rather a pitiable reminder of what the world lost when Storasta fell.
S4. Bedrooms
This pair of long-unused bedrooms once provided a much-needed respite to weary adventurers, but now offers its hospitality only to skittering vermin that call the moldering beds their home. Anything that may have
once been valuable in these rooms has long fallen to uselessness.
S5. Pantry
This former larder offers only broken barrels, torn gunny sacks, and a century of dust.
S6. Kitchen
This room was once the safe house’s kitchen, though one could only tell today by the rusted hulk of the stove and the crumbling remains of its once fine granite tiling. The food in the cabinets has long since rotted away, leaving no stench or sense of decay.
S7. Storeroom
This room appears as disheveled as the rest of the building, playing host to mounds of broken wood, a nest of rags where an unknown creature once lived, and scraps of burlap now more pulp than cloth. Despite the mess, however, a trapdoor lies open behind a shattered crate, revealing an iron ladder leading down into the darkness.
The safe house’s cellar has withstood the horrors of the Abyssal invasion better than the rest of the building, and so have the few remaining relics and adventuring supplies stored within it. Various crates, shelves, and barrels hold relatively well-preserved adventuring gear, weapons, scrolls, and books. Rows of stone shelves cut into the south wall stand strangely empty, however, though traces in the dust on the shelves indicate that a large number of bound volumes were recently removed.
A small, unlocked chest along the west wall contains a series of ledgers detailing the safe house’s legitimate business dealings as a traders’ guild, journals on the natural resources of southern Sarkoris, and an in-depth anthropological study of gender roles among the native Kellid tribes.
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Ralph takes a look around and finds three flasks of acid, two thunderstones, a portable ram, a case of 30 cans of barbarian chew, and 600 gp worth of traditional Kellid woodcarvings. However, all the gear has rusted to worthlessness.
A small, unlocked chest along the west wall contains a series of ledgers detailing the safe house’s legitimate business dealings as a traders’ guild, journals on the natural resources of southern Sarkoris, and an in-depth anthropological study of gender roles among the native Kellid tribes.
The Sarkorian Prophecy’s former shelves reveals a small crack between a low shelf and the wall in which a narrow chapbook fell years ago. The book contains none of the prophecy itself, but rather a journal kept by the nursemaid who tended the sick and demented oracle whose mad writings once filled the wall. It reveals that the prophet’s name was Alathra Binzet and that she was rumored to be over a 150 years old when she began prophesying, transcribing her visions in her native Hallit but in a hand unlike her own.
Ralph throws the ledgers, journals and chapbook into his backpack, then searches the defeated opponents for useful equipment. Then he turns to the Tengu menacingly.
"It would appear that the prophecies are no longer here. Tengu, you will tell us what you know, or I will have roast fowl for dinner. Where. Are. The prophecies."
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"Glad to have you back with us, Alden."
"Right then. Back to my original question. Who are you guys and what are you doing here. Oh and you'd best answer my buddy Ralph's question too. You see, he's really good with fireballs, and also seems to be on a short fuse these days. If you don't start telling us the truth fast I can't stop him from turning you into dinner."
"Lavode, the earth elemental sounds like a great idea! We should remove the tengu's feathers before Ralph roasts him. I mean umm... cooking, I mean, looking underground! Yes. That's a great idea. One should always cook, I mean look, underground. Turning over rocks, you know. Chicken, I mean, checking, what's beneath the crispy, golden-brown surface."
Exiel looks at the tengu hungrily.
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Lavode starts another incantation,
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Moments later, 2 roughly man-sized and humanoid-shaped figures of earth and clay appear.
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Lavode directs them in Terran, Travel through the ground. Search under and around this building for all openings in the earth at least large enough for one of us to sit inside. Report back to me on what you find.
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N Medium outsider (earth, elemental, extraplanar) Init –1; Senses darkvision 60 ft., tremorsense 60 ft.; Perception +7
DEFENSE
AC 18, touch 9, flat-footed 18 (–1 Dex, +9 natural) hp 42 (4d10+20) Fort +9, Ref +0, Will +4 Immune elemental traits
OFFENSE
Speed 20 ft., burrow 20 ft., earth glide Melee slam +11(1d8+9) Special Attacks earth mastery
STATISTICS
Str 24, Dex 8, Con 21, Int 4, Wis 11, Cha 11 Base Atk +4; CMB +11; CMD 20 Feats Cleave, Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack (-2 hit/+4 dam)
Skills Appraise +1, Climb +10, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +2, Knowledge (planes) +2, Perception +7, Stealth +3 Languages Terran
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Earth Glide (Ex)
A burrowing earth elemental can pass through stone, dirt, or almost any other sort of earth except metal as easily as a fish swims through water. If protected against fire damage, it can even glide through lava. Its burrowing leaves behind no tunnel or hole, nor does it create any ripple or other sign of its presence. A earth spell cast on an area containing a burrowing earth elemental flings the elemental back 30 feet, stunning the creature for 1 round unless it succeeds on a DC 15Fortitude save.
Earth Mastery (Ex)
An earth elemental gains a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls if both it and its foe are touching the ground. If an opponent is airborne or waterborne, the elemental takes a –4 penalty on attack and damage rolls. These modifiers apply tobull rush and overrun maneuvers, whether the elemental is initiating or resisting these kinds of attacks. (These modifiers are not included in the statistics block.)
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the Tengu tells you that they were there from the shadow lodge, picking up useful information.
Your summoned elemental finds a tunnel and with a perception check of 20, you find the switch to activate a hidden door (in the basement) that allows you to pass. The tunnel stretches out for a while.
Do you all follow the tunnel?
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Hmm...since we're underground, Exiel will take the rear guard since Balik is happy to take point. He remembers at least one occasion where his party marched in order of squishiness, only to be jumped from behind. Balik's decision to take point may also have influenced this decision for...other reasons.
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I have left out the gold. You'll still get it.
Tengupotion of cure moderate wounds,
Rovaldpotion of cure serious wounds, scroll of alter self, scroll of make whole, wand of false life (20 charges), wand of stoneskin (
Emberpotion of cure moderate wounds, potion of bull’s strength; Other Gear +2 splint mail, +1 adamantine lucerne hammer, ring of protection +1, cloak of resistance +1.
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** spoiler omitted **
Ralph picks out the wands of barkskin and false life.
"This would explain why that mage was so hard to take down. No matter. It is our's to use now."
Ralph uses the wand to cast false life on himself, then offers it to Lavode and Exiel.
"You guys should also fish through these and see what you can use. Alden, put this cloak on for the sake of whatever gods you pray to! You're only so much of an asset if your mind can be wrested away by any half-decent spell-slinger at a whim. I had half a mind to dominate your mind myself back then, but you were freed before I had a chance to do so."
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Lavode uses to proffered wand on himself. Then passes it on to Exiel. If any of the rest of you can make use of this, I would suggest now is the ideal time.
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Looking down the tunnel, Lavode says, Once more today I can conjure magical assistance. If you desire, I could summon something that could quickly or quietly search to the end of that tunnel. But then I won’t be able to conjure any allies should another combat occur. Which seems likely this close to the World Wound. What is your wish?
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Exiel nods as he also takes a ring, as well as a +1 cloak if no one else needs it.
He also takes the wand of false life and activates it on himself.
Finally, he helps himself to the adamantine Lucerne hammer.
"We may find a hard nut to crack. This will be useful."
Finally, he casts CLW on himself and casts protection from evil into his familiar's ioun stone.